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"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."
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"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."

"I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more."

"I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly."

"One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful."

"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"

"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us."

"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."
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"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."


"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."


"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."
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